Anna Wintour Takes Hillary Clinton To Task

WWD:

Don't mess with Anna Wintour. A lesson learned by many in fashion, but obviously not by Sen. Hillary Clinton or her advisers. Clinton was to appear in Vogue as the presidential race reached high gear, but backed out late last fall before a photo shoot was scheduled for fear of appearing too alluring. New York Post columnist Liz Smith reported Nov. 1 that "the astute [Vogue contributing editor] Julia Reed hung ten waiting to write about her and the giant fotog Annie Leibovitz had her cameras at the ready for nothing." A Vogue spokesman confirmed: "We were told by Ms. Clinton's camp that they were concerned if Clinton appeared in Vogue that she would appear too feminine." (Clearly, though, the presidential candidate didn't worry about that when she cried in New Hampshire.)

But Wintour didn't take Clinton's dis lightly. In her February editor's letter, Wintour takes Clinton to task for being behind the times. "Imagine my amazement, then, when I learned that Hillary Clinton, our only female president hopeful, had decided to steer clear of our pages at this point in her campaign for fear of looking too feminine. The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying." Wintour continues: "This is America, not Saudi Arabia. It's also 2008: Margaret Thatcher may have looked terrific in a blue power suit, but that was 20 years ago. I do think Americans have moved on from the power-suit mentality, which served as a bridge for a generation of women to reach boardrooms filled with men. Political campaigns that do not recognize this are making a serious misjudgment."

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Comments

[AnotherIADem]

I'm an Obama supporter, but I am with Hillary on this one... I don't care what the Devil wears, Vogue is simply irrelevant to everything.

[jogger]

I'm no Hillary fan, but Wintour needs to rid her social/political writing staff of high profile Republican shill Julia Reed who gets more than average space in Vogue.

Reed writes long puff pieces on Laura Bush and other Republican women (e.g. Karen Hughes, Condi Rice) selling them at the height of America's discontent with their arrogance, incompetence, and faux compassion.

Reed, who hails from New Orleans, wrote and believed in Republicans even while her city drowned in the systemic disaster that Bush cronyism inflicted upon her city.

Note to Vogue: Send Reed over to a Murdoch publication where she belongs.

[situationcritical]

To you who are giving Anna Wintour fashion advice (from the bowels of Wal-MarK no doubt), what makes you think you know fashion?

Did you fall down on the pavement and smack your silly little head?

(Okay, someone please help me stop. I quote that movie in my sleep)

[SweetJudith]

Anna needs to go away to where all little witches go.
She's a nothing.
But she sure knows how to strip the fur off of the animals.

[samandally]

Does anyone really care what this woman thinks.Never read this mag and never will.

[sneezeguard]

YEAH! Sure. The Clinton camp is dumb enough to say to VOGUE "UM, thanks for the invite, but our female candidate is afraid of seeming too feminine." BBBWWHHHHH­HHHAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAA­AAAAHA!

They were too stupid to say, "Hil would love to be there but she has a scheduling conflict-- namely she's in 28 other )(*#@$ states trying to become president."

Nope, just a bunch of first timers over there at the Clinton camp.

Like I believe the spokesperson for the fucking scarecrow. Puleeeeze.

[Tigerella]

Why would we care what this skinny fake woman thinks anyway? She does nothing but push fashion and unhealthy living to the forefront with her magazine? Do you ever see a 'normal' looking woman in there... that doesn't have an eating disorder or issues with substance abuse.

Why are we supposed to care about Anna Winthrop? It's like voting for Bush because Britney Spears does so.

[rwe]

I am not a Hillary fan . This Wintour wench shouldn't be messing with Hillary. by the Pix above Hillary's fashoin sense is a hell of a lot better . Wintour looks like she is wearing Grandmas drapes and modeling some costume jewelry for the home shopping network. Huffho go to any lengths to in its Hillary hate campaign

[sparkandy]

Just one more reason to admire Hillary as a person, even if I won't vote for her. Why should she be criticized for not appearing in a magazine that appeals to vain, shallow, useless people, when she shows us every day that she's a real person who's far above that sort of silliness? If you ask me, she's too good for Vogue.

[yellowdoggie]

Who does this Anna Wintour person think she is? People in the fashion industry may tremble and weep if she so much as frowns at them, but out here in the real world she doesn't mean crap. You go, Hillary. I would have been disappointed in you if you had appeared in that stupid rag. Your priorities, at least on this, are straight. Why doesn't that hag Wintour get Judy Giuliani (God, what a name!) to pose in Vogue? Or has she already? A much better match.

[bil]

Thabit (See profile | I'm a fan of Thabit)
Would you buy a used car from hillary and bill, this is my litmus test

Yeah ,but if you owned the car business (Country) woudnt you want them to work for you?

[ChezMJ]

If I had a subscription to the idiotic magazine, Vogue, I would cancel it.

Far more likely than fear of appearing "too feminine" (if you believe Vogue), HRC chose not to appear among ads for $15,000 Hermes bags and $900 Manolos while this country plunges into a recession after spending billions on a failed war of choice.

Smart gal, that Hillary. She gets my vote, HuffPo's official (and officious) disapproval not withstanding.

[Thabit]

Would you buy a used car from hillary and bill, this is my litmus test on who i would vote for. If i would feel nervous to do business , i dont vote for them

[VivaZapata]

fear of being too alluring? nothing to worry about: appear away.

[moonbay]

Wow, what planet is Wintour from? I'm wondering who has truly put her "feminine side" to the background - HIllary - who was touched by the caring in the question of how she keeps going on?, or Wintour who couldn't understand that moment correctly? (or chose to mis-interpret it, & thus verbally "counting coup" ~ an activity much more often associated with the masculine culture.